David Arnot

David Arnot, C.R.S.A.
Bishop of Galloway
Coat of arms of David Arnot
Church	Roman Catholic Church
See	Diocese of Galloway
In office	1508–1526
Predecessor	James Beaton
Successor	Henry Wemyss
Personal details
Born	unknown unknown
Died	1536 or 1537
Previous post	Archdeacon of Lothian (1498–1503) Abbot of Cambuskenneth (1503–1509)

David Arnot, C.R.S.A., (before 1497 – 1536 or 1537) was a 16th-century Scottish canon regular and bishop. He was from the Arnot family of Arnot, Fife.

Arnot was Rector of Kirkforthar, Fife, receiving crown presentation to that parish church on 19 September 1497. He received crown presentation to become Archdeacon of Lothian on 26 October 1498.

Arnot is found to be provost of the collegiate church of Bothwell in a document dating to 20 September 1499, a document recording a grant made to Arnot by the king of a tenement in Linlithgow; it is not known when he attained this position. The last known provost is found as provost no later than 26 January 1468; and although this man, Patrick Leich, did not die until either 1493 or 1494, it is not known if Leich still held this position at his death. Arnot was provost there no later than 30 November 1502, when James Beaton is attested as provost.

After the death of Henry Abercrombie, Abbot of Cambuskenneth, on 29 March 1503, Arnot was provided to succeed him. He is found as abbot-elect on 30 May and then as full abbot on 28 November. Arnot led the Abbey of Cambuskenneth for over five years.

In November 1508, after the translation of James Beaton from Bishop of Galloway to Archbishop of Glasgow, Arnot received crown nomination to the papacy to fill the vacant see of Galloway. He was provided to the bishopric on 29 January 1509, and granted the temporalities of the see on 27 May as "Bishop of Candida Casa [Whithorn] and of the Chapel Royal". Since 1504, the position of Bishop of Galloway and that of Dean of the Chapel Royal at Stirling went together.